{"id":49060,"date":"2018-10-09T16:53:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=49060"},"modified":"2018-10-10T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:01:08","slug":"thacker-mountain-radio-welcomes-author-wayetu-moore-october-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/thacker-mountain-radio-welcomes-author-wayetu-moore-october-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Thacker Mountain Radio Welcomes Author Way\u00e9tu Moore October 11 at Off Square Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Way\u00e9tu Moore<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><strong>She Would Be King<\/strong> <\/em>is novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history\u2014a dazzling retelling of Liberia\u2019s formation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Way\u00e9tu Moore\u2019s powerful debut novel,\u00a0<em>She Would Be King<\/em>, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia\u2019s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, could fade from sight, at will, just as his mother could. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts help them salvage the tense relationship between the African American settlers and the indigenous tribes, as a new nation forms around them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Moore\u2019s intermingling of history and magical realism finds voice not just in these three characters but also in the fleeting spirit of the wind, who embodies an ancient wisdom. \u201cIf she was not a woman,\u201d the wind says of Gbessa, \u201cshe would be king.\u201d In this vibrant story of the African diaspora, Moore, a talented storyteller and a daring writer, illuminates with radiant and exacting prose the tumultuous roots of a country inextricably bound to the United States.\u00a0<em>She Would Be King<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>is a novel of profound depth set against a vast canvas and a transcendent debut from a major new author.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Way\u00e9tu Moore\u00a0is the founder of One Moore Book and is a graduate of Howard University, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California. She teaches at the City University of New York\u2019s John Jay College and lives in Brooklyn.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way\u00e9tu Moore&#8216;s She Would Be King is novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history\u2014a dazzling retelling of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":49114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[448,13337,846,13336],"class_list":["post-49060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-off-square-books","tag-she-would-be-king","tag-thacker-mountain-radio","tag-wayetu-moore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/She-Would-Be-King.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}